LETTER: Protect Women, Not the N.R.A.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/opinion/letters/national-rifle-association-violence-against-women.html

Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times

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Re “N.R.A.’s Next Target: Violence Against Women Act” (news article, April 2):

The National Rifle Association uses its legislative scorecard as a means of intimidating lawmakers into voting its way. The bills it chooses to include in its ratings reflect its top policy goals. Now you report that reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act will be on that list. The message is clear: Vote to protect women’s lives at your political peril.

The N.R.A. wants to leave open the “boyfriend loophole,” which allows intimate partners who are convicted of domestic violence, stalking or abuse to keep their firearms. Current protections apply only to men who are married to or who live with the women they abuse and with whom they have a child; boyfriends and exes get a pass.

More than 1,800 women were murdered by men in 2016, and the most common weapon used was a gun, according to a study by the Violence Policy Center. The study found that most often, women were killed by men in the course of an argument.

Congress must close the boyfriend loophole, reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and make protecting women — not the gun lobby — its focus.


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[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Really?

What kind of country are we living in when anyone would consider NOT supporting or strengthening the "Violence Against Women Act?"

If we've gone beyond that then this is a place that is on a downward spiral and I do not want to be a part of it.

2020 is critical. If we don't win big in that - well, I don't want to think about it.

GET OUT THE VOTE!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. The NRA has weaponized the Second Amendment for blood-soaked profit.

Their day is coming. It won't be pretty, but the NRA is dying, and so are the gun-humping, trigger-happy troglodytes who support it.

[dlk]

4. White Male Supremacy Takes Many Ugly Forms

This latest move from the NRA is another deadly example

[Initech]

5. The NRA can go shove an AR15 up their asses